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The objective of this study was to explore the usability of a bilingual (English and French) Internet-based self-management program for adolescents with cancer and their parents and refine the Internet program. A qualitative study design with semistructured, audio-taped interviews and observation was undertaken with 4…

The current study examines a recently developed short English version of the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale. Participants were 251 undergraduate students (59.3% male; mean age=21.16 (SD=4.18); 72% Caucasian). The short version generally replicated the internal consistency (0.74-0.88 across subscales) and inter-scale c…

AIMS: The aim of the study was to explore the frequency of alcohol marketing (both formal commercials and otherwise) in televised top-class English professional football matches. METHODS: A purposive sample of six broadcasts (total = 1101 min) of televised top-class English club football matches were identified and re…

INTRODUCTION: The first aim of our study was to validate the French version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test, a theory of mind test. The second aim was to test whether cultural differences modulate performance on this test. METHODS: A total of 109 participants completed the original English version and 97 part…

Colorectal cancer screening (CRC) disparities between non-Latino Whites and Latinos remain, and may have increased. The goal of this analysis was to examine the association between Latino race/ethnicity, gender, and English-proficiency and CRC screening. Analysis of the CDC's BRFSS 2008 survey. We estimated crude and a…

AIM: To explore the strategies used by nursing students in coping with English as a foreign language medium of instruction. METHOD: A descriptive repeated-measure design was used. A convenience sample of 78 students completed the assessment tool at three different times. Coping was measured with Folkman and Lazarus' (…

OBJECTIVE: Little information is available about accuracy of diagnoses in clinical care for affective and other major mental disorders experienced by Latino patients. This study addressed two central research questions: Do Latinos have disproportionate rates of clinical diagnoses of major depression based on structured…

South Asians in Canada often apply the traditional custom of arranged marriage across international borders, leading to male sponsorship of family-chosen brides from their home countries. This qualitative study examined understandings of sponsorship and marital/resettlement experiences among English-proficient and non-…

The diagnostic problem of how validly to assess the language of children who speak dialects different from Mainstream American English (MAE) has challenged the field of communication disorders for several decades. The key to its solution is to recognize differences due to dialect or development and remove them from the…

This study examined whether experience with a native language affected processing of a place-of-articulation feature. In Experiment 1, 10 stimuli from a continuum of synthesized Hindi bilabial, dental and retroflexed stops were presented to English and Hindi speakers to examine discrimination and identification across…

We examined variations in stage, diagnostic workup and therapy for breast cancer across Europe. Seventeen cancer registries in six European countries contributed 4,480 cases diagnosed in 1990-91. The clinical records of these cases were examined, and the distribution of stage, diagnostic examinations and therapy were a…

CONTEXT: Since 1986, the Ontario Ministry of Health has provided a medical licensure preparation programme for international medical graduates. Because of the diversity in candidates' oral English proficiency, this competency has been viewed as a particularly important selection criterion. OBJECTIVES: To assess and co…

The ratio between the length of the 2nd and 4th digit (2D:4D) is sexually dimorphic, with mean male 2D:4D lower than mean female 2D:4D. It recently was suggested that 2D:4D is negatively correlated with prenatal testosterone and positively correlated with prenatal estrogen. It is argued that high prenatal testosterone…

The purpose of this investigation was to compare the dental health related behaviour of groups of 13-14-year-old English and Scottish schoolchildren, in order to explain the differences in caries experience demonstrated by the 1983 national children's dental health survey. The data-bank of health-reported behaviour of…

BACKGROUND: Hemorrhoidal disease is highly prevalent in the United States and frequently queried online. Unfortunately, health education web pages often lack reliable information. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether online hemorrhoid education materials in English and Spanish meet national recommendations for readability,…

INTRODUCTION: This qualitative study examines the cognitive and motivational impacts of flipped classrooms on English teachers at a Chinese art university, drawing on self-determination theory and social constructivism. METHODS: Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and classroom observations with Eng…

This qualitative study examines the psychological attitudes of preservice English teachers toward generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) through the UTAUT2 model. Thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 15 undergraduate teacher candidates indicated that their perceptions exhibit psychological ambivalen…

The need for personalized and real-time feedback in English writing instruction is increasing rapidly. Traditional systems, which depend on rule-based engines and shallow machine learning models, struggle to meet this demand. They often fall short in addressing key aspects such as grammar correction, sentence variety,…

This study analyzes the compositions of Hong Kong English as a second language (ESL) learners and English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in Mainland China in terms of lexical and syntactic features. A program based on the CoreNLP was developed and used to analyze written language texts, and differences in tags of…

With the advent of positive psychology in second language (L2) learning, some researchers have undertaken empirical studies to explore emotional variables affecting L2 learning and how positive emotions can enhance the engagement of L2 learners. As an attempt to contribute to this research domain, this project sought t…